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indigenous of the UN
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mmatias@fondoindigenous.net, marcos104@hotmail.com
Mexico, Federal District
19 of November of the 2004
LIC. JOSE MURAT CASAB
GOVERNOR OF THE OAXACA STATE
Distinguished Mr. Gobernador:
In the month of June, 2003, I had the honor of being invited by the Dr Rodolfo Stavenhagen, in its character of Special Relator on the situation of the human rights and the fundamental liberties of the indigenous towns, to visit some States of country and to know in field, on the alarming situation in which the indigenous towns live on Mexico.
In the context of the official mission of the Special Relator, 9 and 10 of June, we maintained to diverse encounter and meetings of work with some representatives of the towns and organizations of the State of Oaxaca. In the official visit of the Special Relator, we stated the existence of multiple conflicts in the indigenous communities where violence acts happen and interventions of the authorities you publish, that form violations to the human rights. According to multiple testimonies, many violent processes follow in impunity and cause the sprouting of Politicall conflicts and the new outbreak of the violence. In Oaxaca, the agrarian Earth subject and subjects, continue being one of the main sources of the centennial conflicts that demand a fixed answer of the diverse instances of the federal and State government. In the field of the justice administration, the indigenous towns of Oaxaca continue being victimas of discrimination, humiliations and abuses.
The Special Relator and the subscribed one, we received direct testimonies of Popular the indigenous Council of Oaxaca (CIPO) and in voice of the affected ones “denuncian harassment and threats to its leaders by its defense of earth comunales”. To but of 15 months of the visit of the Special Relator with the leaders of the CIPO, far from improving the situation of his you lead, I make worse the harassment to the members of said organizacion. In special, I have knowledge of the sinking in which is the life of Raul Gatica Baptist, one of the main defenders of the human rights of the indigenous towns of the area of influence of work of the CIPO. The serious situation that confronts the companero Raul Gatica Baptist, to attired the attention of the Inter-American Commission of the Human rights (CIDH), organism of the high prestige at continental level, who has emitted recommendations you will prevent to protect his physical integrity to safeguard his rights like indigenous, oaxHereno, Mexican and, mainly, like being human.
Distinguished Mr. Gobernador, at a distance I am found out the great advances obtained to the front of the state of Oaxaca. Its sensitivity to the indigenous subject has caused that you contribute in the solution of centennial agrarian and Politicall problems that with certain frequency appear in Oaxaca.
Personally, I have been witness of its availability in guaranteeing the governability in situations of high Politicall tension. Every day, the good government and the social stability become but complex and dificiles to maintain. Nevertheless, they are the unico way to protect armonia, the concord and social La Paz. Never sera via takes to retake the way of I engage in a dialog like one to find the solution to the right demands of the indigenous brothers of the CIPO. You are a visionary man with capacity to distensar malaises and inconformidades. Its opportune intervention can transform the pain into hope the relatives who sound with finding the freedom of their imprisoned relatives. Well that you are enemy of impunity; and the instances of justice of their government sabran to punish the aggressors of the human rights of the indigenous comrades of the CIPO. If in their hands this to interyield in the corresponding agrarian agencies, my indigenous brothers sabran to correspond to have the agrarian certainty in their ancestral communal earth.
Mr. Gobernador, I take leave with breath and hope that the organos of justice teaching and the Politicall will of their Government, actuen fixedly.
Receive a warm greeting and you reiterate my disposition to help in the diverse subjects that worry to the indigenous towns about Oaxaca.
To t and n t a.m. and n t e
Marks Matias Alonso
Independent Expert